Scavello should resign after 11 years

Friday

Jun 14, 2013 at 12:01 AM

Editor, the Record:

Editor, the Record:

For the record, I don't smoke. Rep. Mario Scavello, R-176, is proposing new legislation that criminalizes smoking in the few remaining public places Big Brother hasn't purged it from yet. Mario is on TV touting the need to clamp down on all those evil, dirty smoker types, "killing" us all with second-hand smoke, while he salivates over how to re-distribute the almost $1.1 billion of cigarette/tobacco tax revenue (fiscal year 2011 to 2012).

Indeed, if smoking is such a killer, then that $1.1 billion is blood money, and should not be collected at all. Why isn't Mario campaigning to outlaw tobacco completely, if we all agree it's an "evil killer"? One word: money. Should we ignore the hypocrisy and ethical degeneracy of such behavior and public policy? Can he really be proud of pressing for more intrusive laws and micromanagement of citizens' lives all in the name of "it's good for us"?

Promoting businesses on his "info"-mercials and ribbon cuttings, and marching in parades and holding senior citizen expos and handing out scholarships ad nauseum and promising "real" property tax relief must be where the real economy is, because he has been making a nice living at it for 11 years now, all whilst the quality of life here in the Poconos has degraded measurably.

Were Mr. Scavello to be concerned with truth, he would switch parties and join the Democrats, who are, at least, intellectually honest about their never-ending lust for control and domination of the citizenry. I propose Mr. Scavello should do some real good and resign. Sic semper tyrranis.